Senior Systems Engineer

Do you want to work in a company that develops systems to help keep people and society safe?

You will join a systems engineering team responsible for designing, integrating, and verifying secure communication systems where reliability, interoperability, and lifecycle performance are critical.

Your role

As a Senior Systems Engineer, you take end-to-end technical ownership of system design within complex projects. You are responsible for defining system architecture, driving requirements, and ensuring that solutions meet operational, technical, and lifecycle constraints.

You lead systems engineering activities across disciplines, align stakeholders, and make trade-offs between performance, cost, schedule, and maintainability.

You guide other engineers and ensure consistency across system design, integration, and verification.

Success in this role means delivering robust system designs that meet requirements, are accepted by stakeholders, and perform reliably in operation while balancing technical and lifecycle constraints.

You will work on systems involving multiple interfaces, suppliers, and technologies, where decisions have long-term impact on system performance, maintainability, and operational effectiveness.

Your profile

You have proven experience taking technical ownership in complex systems engineering projects, including system architecture, requirements, and integration.

You are comfortable making technical decisions under uncertainty and aligning stakeholders across engineering, project management, and customers.

You translate operational needs into structured system solutions and drive them through to implementation and verification.

You have operated as a technical lead or senior contributor in multidisciplinary engineering environments.

Key responsibilities

Systems engineering leadership

• Lead and coordinate systems engineering activities within projects

• Own technical alignment across stakeholders and disciplines

• Mentor and guide engineers to ensure quality and consistency

Architecture and requirements

• Define system architecture and key design decisions

• Own system requirements, including structure, traceability, and quality

• Ensure integration of lifecycle aspects such as maintainability and supportability

Integration, verification, and delivery

• Define verification strategies and ensure requirement compliance

• Support system integration across interfaces and subsystems

• Ensure technical coherence from concept to validation

Technical analysis and improvement

• Evaluate new technologies and system concepts

• Analyse existing systems and drive improvements

Key qualifications

• Degree in Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Telecommunications, or a comparable field

• Strong communication skills and ability to work across customers, suppliers, and internal stakeholders

• Fluent in English (written and spoken)

Experience with one or more of the following is an advantage:

• Tactical data links (e.g. Link 16, Link 11, Link 22) or comparable communication systems

• RF and communication technologies (HF, VHF, UHF)

• Secure communication systems

• MBSE approaches and tools

• Messaging systems such as MMHS

What can you expect from us?

Saab Danmark is a company that is growing and you will therefore experience a company that is dynamic and able to adapt. In the Saab group we have a saying” Business is done between people”, and this is also the environment you can expect here. We offer:

• Initial learning process with mentorship and support

• Good career and development opportunities in a professional company

• A vibrant and international atmosphere with colleagues from all over the world

• Benefits that support our employees’ wellbeing

• A variety of social activities, lunch scheme, pension as well as flexible work conditions

• Focus on our teams, good cooperation and giving our employees the ability to take ownership of their tasks.

Candidates must be able to obtain a security clearance by the Danish Defence Intelligence Service. This entails that candidates, as a minimum, have had residency within NATO/EU for the last 7 years.

About Saab Danmark A/S

Saab in Denmark is part of the Saab Group with headquarters in Stockholm, Sweden. At the same time, Saab Danmark is an independent legal company with a flat organisational structure. Our main business area is delivering integrated communication solutions to military markets in Denmark and abroad.

You can find further information about our integrated communication solution TactiCall, at www.saab.com/naval.